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For over 30 years, Thomas Balsley Associates has reshaped urban space around the world by designing plazas, parks, waterfronts, streetscapes and other landscapes that teem with public life and are a source of civic pride. Innovative civic design is the focus of Thomas Balsley’s practice. Central to the firm’s design approach is his belief that, “Public open spaces are the great democratic spaces, the ultimate common ground.” This is the vision and structure that only a hands-on principal can provide.
Thomas Balsley Associates offers strongly-coordinated design/documentation and experienced project management that is well-suited to the physical and bureaucratic complexities of multi-discipline civic projects. Wherever we work—be it Tokyo or Portland, Oregon—we become acquainted with the local context, culture, and local microclimate conditions, as well as codes and policies. Our full range of landscape architectural services, including scope programming, concept alternatives, schematic and design development, construction documentation, construction support and post construction services has transformed vision into reality.
In New York City alone, TBA has designed more than 100 public parks and plazas. His local reputation continues to grow on the strength of such projects as Jacob Javits Federal Plaza, Peggy Rockefeller Plaza on the campus of Rockefeller University, Lou Gehrig Plaza in the Bronx, GM Plaza on Fifth Avenue, Symphony Plaza, Cinema Plaza at Battery Park City, GM Plaza, and 100 United Nations Plaza, Riverside Park South, Chelsea Waterside Park, and the Queens West parks: Gantry Plaza State Park and Hunters Point Community Park.
Recent plaza projects outside New York include Main Street Garden Park in Dallas, Hart Plaza in Detroit, West Shore Park in Baltimore, Perk Plaza in Cleveland, Skyline Park in Denver, the plazas at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles and a waterfront park in Tampa.
Every year brings international recognition in the form of awards and citations from professional and civic organizations, including the American Society of Landscape Architects. TBA’s work has appeared in many national and international publications, including The New York Times’ newspaper and magazine, New York magazine, Landscape Architecture, Sculpture Magazine, Abitare, Arredo Urbano, Progressive Architect, The Builder, Ville Giardini, and Places, television news features and profiles. Recently, Spacemaker Press devoted an entire monograph to Thomas Balsley’s work, entitled “Thomas Balsley: The Urban Landscape.”
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